David Crausby – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Crausby on 2014-06-05.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the trends in the incidence of dental caries among school children (a) in Bolton and (b) nationally since 2010.
Dr Daniel Poulter
There has been only one published survey of dental caries among schoolchildren which includes the Bolton area since 2010. This is the National Dental Epidemiology Programme for England: oral health survey of five-year-old children 2012, A report on the prevalence and severity of dental decay. This can be found at the following link:
www.nwph.net/dentalhealth/survey-results5.aspx?id=1
A comparison of selected findings from the survey, and from the previous survey of five year old children in England, published in 2009, the NHS Dental Epidemiology Programme for England, Oral Health Survey of 5 year old Children, 2007/2008 can be found at the following link:
www.nwph.info/dentalhealth/survey-results.aspx?id=1
The comparisons are supplied in the following table:
|
Bolton Local Authority area |
2008 |
2012 |
|
Number of children examined |
298 |
262 |
|
Mean number decayed, missing or filled teeth (dmft) |
1.91 |
1.85 |
|
Proportion of children with lifetimes caries experience (% dmft>0) |
46.3% |
43.4% |
|
National (England) |
2008 |
2012 |
|
Number of children examined |
139,727 |
133,516 |
|
Mean number decayed, missing or filled teeth (dmft) |
1.11 |
0.94 |
|
Proportion of children with lifetimes caries experience (% dmft>0) |
30.9% |
27.9% |
